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ORDERS FOB. AMBULANGES
Moving the Entire
Force to the Eastern and Southern
Coasts—The Number of Inspections In-
creased, as in Time of Actual Hostilities.
Washington, March 28.——Measures
have been adopted by the ‘Nar Depart-
ment which go a long way toward the
complete preparation of the army to
meet immediate hostilities. leneral
Miles held a conference with Secretary
Long in regard to the diswibution of
troops on the eastern and southern
coasts, and the steps taken to move
the whole standing army within a short
time, or as soon as the situation shall
become in the least degree more criti—
cal, were thus perfected.
It was decided 'in general that the in-
fantry and cavalry from Jefferson Bar-
racks, Columbus Barracks, Fort Thom—
as and Fort Sheridan shall be sent to
coast points south of Maryland, and
that the troops from the lake region
and the northwestern posts shall be
utilized in the Department of the East.
In many cases the troops will be as-
signed to the immediate vicinity of the
present forts and coast fortifications on
the coast, especially in the South.
Many of the troops, however, will be
stationed at new points, and the tent
equipage of such regiments will be used
instead of permanent barracks. To
this end the tents and other belongings
of all Western cavalry and infantry
regiments have been prepared for ship-
ment at a moment’s notice.
Several orders were issued and con—
tracts made Saturday which are espe-
cially significant of the erartment’s
desire to prepare for actual operatons
in the field at an early day. A con
tract was made for twenty additional
ambulances for use in the field. An-
other contract calls for the early de-
livery of 100,000 pounds of gun cotten
to be used in planting submarine mines
in channels, harbors, and at the
mouths of large rivers.
“Vithout in any degree relaxing the
s'trlictness of the physical and moral re-
uuirements in regard to recruits for the
army, the Adjutant-Generals office is
hastening the work of recruiting men
for the new Sixth and Seventh Regi—
ments of artillery. When the recruit-
ing for these regiments began, only
about twenty-five men per day were se-
cured. Within the last few days,
however, the number has been increas—
ed to forty per day, and it is on this
basis that Adjutant—General Corbin es-
timates the early completion of the re-
cruiting. ,
The War Department has ordered
that a physical examination be made
of all the militia. organizations in all
the States for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the number of men which would
be available at once for the service,
but the latest order provides for an ac-
curate statement of the whole force
which the President could command.
The Secretary of War has ordered
that the system of army inspection em-
ployed prior to 1894 be organized at
once. Hereafter the inspectors will re-
port only to the commanding generals
of the several military dpartments, in-
stead of being under the immediate di-
rection of the Secretary of War, and
of the Adjutant-General of the army.
PLANS OF THE FLYING SQUADRON.
Making Giant Efforts to Put It in Work-
ing Order.
Washington, March 28.r-The flying
squadron will not complete its organi-
zation until the middle of this week,
although its nucleus will be at Hamp-
ton Roads when Commodore Schley
hoists his pennant on the flagship
Brooklyn to-day. At that time the
Brooklyn and Massachusetts will be
the only ships of the prospective flying
squadron there, the Texas being at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard to receive her
ammunition hoists, while the cruisers
Columbia and Minneapolis are ex-
pected to be ready to leave League
Island Navy Yard in time to reach
Hampton Roads about the middle of
the week.
Already men and supplies have been
forwarded to League Island for the
two cruisers of this squadron. Sixty
sailors have come on from the old ship
'Michigan, stationed on the great lakes,
and seventeen coal passers from the re-
ceiving ship -W’abas‘n at Boston. These
men are now at League Island and will
be distributed between the cruisers
Minneapolis and Columbia- By the
end of the week the flying squadron
will be complete in its organization of
ships, men and armament.
The movements of the Spanish tor-
pedo flotilla continues to be watched
with the keenest interest by naval offi-
cials and close estimates are being
made as to their location and the time
intervening before their arrival at
Porto Rico. The Navy Department
calculates that the run from the Ca-
naries to San Juan, Porto Rico, which
is expected to
point, is 2,800 miles. It is believed
they have already covered about 400
miles of this distance. They are mov-
ing slowly, being retarded by a collier
which accompanies them, and the bal-
ance of the trip will take from twelve
to fourteen days.
Representative I-Iilborn of California,
one of the senior members of the House
Committee on Naval‘Affairs in talking
with theNavyDepartment officials con-
cerning the movements of the Spanish
flotilla presented a new phase of the
case and one not in line with the cur-
rent view of naval officials.
“It is not for us to interfere in any
case with the movement of the Spanish
torpedo flotilla or other Spanish ves-
sels,” said he. “The high seas are an
open highway to the ships of the world.
and while there is no declaration of
war we are not in a position to say that
these torpedo boats shall not move as
Spain sees fit to direct them. When
we are assembling our own ships at
Key West and other points it is not
the time for us to intercept the move-
ments of Spanish ships. That would
be an overt act and not permissible in
the absence of a declaration of war.”
It is understood that the battleships
Massachusetts and Texas were attach-
ed to the flying squadron because the
armored cruiser Cristobal Colon is act-
ing as the flotilla}: convoy, and that
be the first stopping :
they will act with the squadron in any
offensive movement.
Six of the fastest tugs and yachts
bought in New York are to be as-
signed to Commodore Schley’s com-
mand as soon as they are converted
into torpedo gunboats at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard. They Will act as night
pickets for the warships.
be fitted with a searchlight for that
purpose. This precaution was ‘an out—
growth of the uneasiness over the ap-
proach of the Spanish flotilla.
Commodore Schley left Vi’ashington
last night for the rendezvous at Hamp-
ton Roads, where he will assume his
new post of duty on the flagship
Brooklyn. He has selected two of the
officers of his staff. They are Lieut.
Sears, flag lieutenant, and Lieut. Wells,
flag secretary.
SUNDAA WAR COUNClL.
First Sunday Meeting of the Cabinet in
Thirty-three Years.
Vv'ashington, March 28.—-President
McKinley yesterday hurriedly sum-
moned his Cabinet to the White House.
This was the first time the Cabinet had
been called togther on Sunday for thir-
ty-three years. The call was issued a
few minutes before 11 o’clock. The
urgency of the meeting was well betok-
ened in the fact that several messen-
gers instead of one Were sent to sum-
mon the Cabinet officers.
The chief cause of the hurried meet-
ing just before noon was the receipt by
the President of the Spanish Govern—
ment's reply' to the American note ac'~
companying the Maine report.
The substance of this reply is that
the Spanish Government has made a.
separate investigation of the Maine
disaster, and is convinced that the ex-
plosion was an internal one, for Which
Spain could in no way be held respon-
sible. It also declared that the harbor
of Havana was not mined.
The Cabinet spent much time in dis-
cussing the matter of the Spanish tor—
pedo boat flotilla, and the probabilities
of dispatching Commodore Schley's
“flying squadron" to intercept it. _
The meeting lasted until after 1
o’clock, and when the members of the
Cabinet left none of them would con—
sent to make any statement.
Attorney-General Griggs was asked
whether he could tell if any answer had
yet been received “from Spain. and re-
plied: “We could tell you, but we will
not.”’
Secretary Alger last night said that
the meeting of the Cabinet was of no
special importance. The subjects dis-
cussed were those that would naturally
be talked about.
MRS. PARNELL DEAD.
biotlier of Charles Stewart Parnell Dies
from Burns.
London, March 23.—-Mrs. Della. Tudor
Parnell, daughter of the celebrated
American naval officer, Rear Admiral
Charles Stewart, and mother of Charles
Stewart Parnell, died last evening at
Avondale, Rathdrum, County Wick—
low, Ireland, as the result of the burns
she received Saturday from igniting
her clothing while she was sitting be-
fore a fire.
Mis.s Della Tudor Stewart was mar-
ried to Charles Henry Parnell on May
21, 1835. Her famous son. Charles
Stewart Parnell, long the Irish Home
Rule leader in the British Parliament.
was not born until 1846. After his
death she remained for some time un-
der the hallucination that he still lived,
a. delusion which was shared by her
daughter, Miss Anna Parnell, who at
the time of the imprisonment of
Charles Stewart Parnell, assumed the
direction of the Land League.
In April of 1896, while in this country,
Mrs. Parnell was the victim of a. sav-
age assault, presumably by a tramp,
from the effects of which she never en-
tirely recovered. Last May an appeal
signed by the Lord Mayor of Dublin
and other influential friends of Charles
Stewart Parnell, was issued in London,
asking subscriptions to a fund to assist
her and other needy members of the
family by freeing the Parnell estates at
Avondale from debt and other obliga-
tions. This was partially successful,
and her own immediate necessities
,were relieved, while the remnant of
‘her days was passed in comparative
comfort.
q To the end she was the devoted
:champion of th doctrine of complete
'political independence for Ireland of
which her favorite son was the most
celebrate-d exponent. _ -
THE SPANISH ELECTION.
. Liberal Party Wins and the Result Means
I That War Will Be Avoided if Possible.
Madrid, March 28.—-The result of the
elections to-day is that Premier Sa-
gasta. and the Liberal party will re-
main in oflice. They were elected by
a. large majority amid the most in-
tense enthusiasm.
} In this city the polls were almost de-
serted and the elections were conduct-
ed in an orderly manner. , There were
serious disturbances, however, at Bil-
boa, Barcelona, Biscay, Navarre, Cata-
' lonia, Valencia and Du-rango. At the
I latter place one man was killed.
The election resulted as it was gen-
erally supposed it would, in a rebuke
to Weyler and the butcherings of inno—
cents in Cuba.
It was estimated last night that the
Government has won 300 of the ~23?
. seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
i It is reported that the Conservatives
intend to propose that the troops in the
interior of Cuba Withdraw to the coast
until the Autonomists and Separatists
arrive at an agreement, but it is not
expected that the Chamber will enter-
tain the proposal.
Order for Big Guns.
Bethlehem, Pa., March ZS.—T-he Beth-
lehem Iron Company has received a. big
order for the United States Navy. It
includes seven 10-inch and six 12-inch
disappearing gun carriages to be flnish-
ed as rapidly as possible, and five 10-
inch guns which makes fifteen 10-inch
guns to be delivered by July 1. The
company’s works are running night
and day on armor, guns and carriages
for the navy.
A Slaughter of Prices.
Pittsburg, Pa.., March 28.—The dis-
ruption of the tin plate combination
has resulted in a. slaughter of prices
and tin plate is now selling at $2.70 per
100 pounds. Large orders have been
placed within the last few days. one
" notable order being for 100,000 pounds.
This brings the price so low as to prac-
tically exclude the Welsh product, and
imports are falling off to an alarming
: extent.
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